Descript |
vi, 250 p. ; 22 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction: Slicing women's bodies: Christianity and the cut, mutilated and cosmetically altered believers -- Slicing mothers: violence and the maternal in the Marquis de Sade / Beverley Clack -- 'Cut 'n' slash': remodelling the 'freakish' female form / Inga Bryden -- Cutting edge: witnessing rites of passage in a therapeutic community / Elizabeth Baxter -- Mutilations and restorations: cosmetic surgery in Christianity / Marcella Alhaus-Reid -- This body trans/forming me: indecencies in transgender/intersex bodies, body fascism and the doctrine of the Incarnation / Martín Hugo Córdova Quero -- Uses and abuses of power in the Shoah and the silent genocide of abused women / Victoria Rollins -- Biblically slicing women / Janet Wootton -- Will you slim for him or bake cakes for the queen of heaven? / Lisa Isherwood -- Why women need to be ripped, shredded and sliced: political, philosophical and thealogical reflections / Paul Reid-Bowen |
ISBN |
9780334041573 |
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0334041570 (pbk.) |
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